clang
/klaŋ
/noun
A loud, resonant metallic sound or series of sounds: the steel door slammed shut with a clang...
- At that precise moment, a gong near the entrance way was sounded, the metallic clang echoing around the Great Hall.
- Metallic clangs sounded as blade met blade, and the cries of the wounded echoed in their ears.
- The crowd silenced as a loud clang sounded behind the burly man.
Synonyms
reverberation, ringing, ring, ding-dong, bong, peal, chime, toll;
clank, clash, crash, clangour
informal boing
verb
Make or cause to make a clang: [no object]: the bell of a fire engine clanged [with object]: the belfry still clangs its bell at 9 p.m....
- A heavy door clanged shut behind him and then there was silence.
- The double doors clanged shut behind me, and I stared in wonder at the sunlight streaming through a wall of windows.
- As I dragged myself out from underneath him the door clanged shut with such a final note that I felt a shiver go down my spine.
Synonyms
reverberate, resound, ring, bong, peal, chime, toll;
clank, clash, crash
informal boing
rare tang
Origin
Late 16th century: imitative, influenced by Latin clangere 'resound'.
Rhymes
- inadmissibility
- inadmissible
- inadmissibly
- in advance
- in advance of
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- inadvertent
- inadvertently
- inadvisability
- inadvisable
- in a fair way to do something
- in a heap
- in a heartbeat
- in a hurry
- in aid of
- inalienability
- inalienable
- inalienably
- in all
- in all but name
- in (all) conscience
- in all honesty
- in all innocence
- in all likelihood